Microsoft office 2016 on ebay

ukjoel

The warnings on this ad are all common sense and would agree with them 100% but of the four things to avoid in a seller the only one that applies to the OP's post is the one re price being cheap.

-Dont buy if seller doesnt have 100% feedback - He has!
- Dont buy if the last items sold more than a month or a year ago - All feeedback (29 items are in the last month)
-Dont buy if there is no contact number - its ebay - very few people list their contact numbers.
- Dont buy if its cheap - Well yes its cheap but not much cheaper than if i was buying it on a student license or through my company discount scheme.

I could be wrong and in which case I will be the first of 29 people to leave neg feedback and claim via paypal for a refund. Will find out this week. Dont know what more exciting - waiting for this to arrive or the new episode of game of thrones... Windows or Dragons.....what a week.

pappa_golf

or the 6 week timer on the licence

ChiefGrasscutter

You problem will be if MS takes a month or so to blacklist the key IF they find there is something amisss - like it being used installed umpteen times including by all 29.

stone7

Got mine today. Installs very easily, nothing to key in, no online registration.

Clearly dodgy but well worth the £14.90 or whatever it was.

Double_V

stone7 wrote: »

Got mine today. Installs very easily, nothing to key in, no online registration.

Clearly dodgy but well worth the £14.90 or whatever it was.

Is it working properly ?
Still working ?
Did you actually receive key with it ?

paddyrg

If in a month you wish to find that all your files get encrypted and you get charged $500 to decrypt, if your online banking password is unimportant to you, then this is the way to increase those chances.

Big_Graeme

paddyrg wrote: »

If in a month you wish to find that all your files get encrypted and you get charged $500 to decrypt, if your online banking password is unimportant to you, then this is the way to increase those chances.

Unless of course you choose to use a decent AV solution...

mr_fishbulb

Big_Graeme wrote: »

Unless of course you choose to use a decent AV solution...

AV will not detect a lot of ransomware nowadays.

http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fresh-ransomware-campaign-has-a-0/

If you are going to install dodgy software then the best mitigation against ransomware is backups (which aren't stored on your machine, or any machine accessible from your machine).

Chrysalis

stone7 wrote: »

Got mine today. Installs very easily, nothing to key in, no online registration.

Clearly dodgy but well worth the £14.90 or whatever it was.

so who is the seller? no link provided.

paddyrg

Big_Graeme wrote: »

Unless of course you choose to use a decent AV solution...

No. Antivirus programmes are reactive and around 50% effective. Far better not to open the door to nasties in the first place.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/06/software-cracks-a-great-way-to-infect-your-pc/